Kennedy Pullout Speech; Roll Call for V.P. Nomination

At the 1956 Democratic National Convention, John Kennedy delivered a speech to withdraw his name from the 1956 vice presidential…
read more

At the 1956 Democratic National Convention, John Kennedy delivered a speech to withdraw his name from the 1956 vice presidential nomination. Presidential nominee Adlai Stevenson announced that the convention would vote on the vice presidential nominee. Senator Kennedy lost by a small margin to Senator Kefauver. NBC used an “ultra portable camera” to cover the convention floor. close

Javascript must be enabled in order to access C-SPAN videos.

Transcript type

Filter by Speaker

Search this transcript

*The transcript for this program was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.